Misterio, Thriller y Suspenso
Número de paginas: : 496 páginas Editor: Warner Books; Edición: Reissue (1 de diciembre de 1995)ISBN-10: 9780446601245 ISBN13: 978-0446601245 Peso: 8 oz.
Número de paginas: : 384 páginas Editor: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard; Edición: Original (2 de julio de 2013)ISBN-10: 034580709X ISBN13: 978-0345807090 Peso: 9.6 oz.
Número de paginas: : 210 páginas Editor: Ecco; Edición: 1st Ecco Ed (31 de mayo de 2002)ISBN-10: 9780876859261 ISBN13: 978-0876859261 Peso: 7.2 oz.
Número de paginas: : 256 páginas Editor: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard; Edición: Reprint (3 de junio de 1996)ISBN-10: 0679768068 ISBN13: 978-0679768067 Peso: 5.6 oz.
Número de paginas: : 304 páginas Editor: HarperCollins; Edición: Reprint (25 de enero de 2005)ISBN-10: 0060777095 ISBN13: 978-0060777098 Peso: 5.6 oz.
Opiniones editoriales:From Library JournalChandler is not only the best writer of hardboiled PI stories, he's one of the 20th century's top scribes, period. His full canon of novels and short stories is reprinted in trade paper featuring uniform covers in Black Lizard's signature style. A handsome set for a reasonable price. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.Opinión:"Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Times“[Chandler] wrote as if pain hurt and life mattered.” --The New Yorker“Chandler seems to have created the culminating American hero: wised up, hopeful, thoughtful, adventurous, sentimental, cynical and rebellious.” --Robert B. Parker, The New York Times Book Opinión:“Philip Marlowe remains the quintessential urban private eye.” --Los Angeles Times“Nobody can write like Chandler on his home turf, not even Faulkner. . . . An original. . . . A great artist.” — The Boston Book Opinión:“Raymond Chandler was one of the finest prose writers of the twentieth century. . . . Age does not wither Chandler’s prose. . . . He wrote like an angel.” --Literary Opinión:“[T]he prose rises to heights of unselfconscious eloquence, and we realize with a jolt of excitement that we are in the presence of not a mere action tale teller, but a stylist, a writer with a vision.” --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books“Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.” — Ross Macdonald“Raymond Chandler is a star of the first magnitude.” --Erle Stanley Gardner“Raymond Chandler invented a new way of talking about America, and America has never looked the same to us since.” --Paul Auster “[Chandler]’s the perfect novelist for our times. He takes us into a different world, a world that’s like ours, but isn’t. ” --Carolyn SeeFrom the Inside FlapMarlowe befriends a down on his luck war veteran with the scars to prove it. Then he finds out that Terry Lennox has a very wealthy nymphomaniac wife, who he's divorced and re-married and who ends up dead. and now Lennox is on the lam and the cops and a crazy gangster are after Marlowe.From the Back Cover"Raymond Chandler is a master." --The New York Times"Chandler [writes] like a slumming angel and invest[s] the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence." --Ross MacDonaldSobre el autor:Raymond Thornton Chandler (1888 - 1959) was the master practitioner of American hard-boiled crime fiction. Although he was born in Chicago, Chandler spent most of his boyhood and youth in England where he attended Dulwich College and later worked as a freelance journalist for The Westminster Gazette and The Spectator. During World War I, Chandler served in France with the First Division of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, transferring later to the Royal Flying Corps (R. A. F.). In 1919 he returned to the United States, settling in California, where he eventually became director of a number of independent oil companies. The Depression put an end to his career, and in 1933, at the age of forty-five, he turned to writing fiction, publishing his first stories in Black Mask. Chandler’s detective stories often starred the brash but honorable Philip Marlowe (introduced in 1939 in his first novel, The Big Sleep) and were noted for their literate presentation and dead-on critical eye. Never a prolific writer, Chandler published only one collection of stories and seven novels in his lifetime. Some of Chandler’s novels, like The Big Sleep, were made into classic movies which helped define the film noir style. In the last year of his life he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America. He died in La Jolla, California on March 26, 1959.
Número de paginas: : 672 páginas Editor: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard; Edición: Media Tie In, Reissue (22 de noviembre de 2011)ISBN-10: 0307949486 ISBN13: 978-0307949486 Peso: 11.2 oz.
Número de paginas: : 576 páginas Editor: Top Shelf Productions; Edición: New Ed (13 de marzo de 2012)ISBN-10: 0958578346 ISBN13: 978-0958578349 Peso: 3.8 lb.
Número de paginas: : 180 páginas Editor: Penguin Classics; Edición: Reprint (31 de agosto de 2004)ISBN-10: 0143039024 ISBN13: 978-0143039020 Peso: 8.5 oz.
Número de paginas: : 501 páginas Editor: Grand Central Publishing; Edición: 1st (14 de enero de 1997)ISBN-10: 0446602612 ISBN13: 978-0446602617 Peso: 8 oz.
Número de paginas: : 502 páginas ISBN-10: 0156001314 ISBN13: 978-0156001311 Peso: 1.1 lb.
Número de paginas: : 433 páginas ISBN-10: 0451209338 ISBN13: 978-0451209337 Peso: 9.1 oz.
Número de paginas: : 270 páginas ISBN-10: 1610530136 ISBN13: 978-1610530132 Peso: 10.4 oz.
Número de paginas: : 354 páginas Editor: Da Capo Press; Edición: Reprint (21 de diciembre de 2005)ISBN-10: 1560258152 ISBN13: 978-1560258155 Peso: 1.1 lb.
Opiniones editoriales:Opinión:Praise for The Hunt for Red October“Flawless...frighteningly genuine.”— The Wall Street Journal “Remarkable...intricate and nerve tingling.”— Clive Cussler“Gripping narrative...Navy buffs and thriller adepts have been mesmerized.”— TimePraise for Tom Clancy“He constantly taps the current world situation for its imminent dangers and spins them into an engrossing tale.”— The New York Times Book Opinión:“A brilliant describer of events.”— The Washington Post“No one can equal his talent for making military electronics and engineering intelligible and exciting...He remains the best!”— Houston Chronicle Sobre el autor:A little more than thirty years ago Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October— the first of the phenomenally successful Jack Ryan novels— sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.” From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013.
Número de paginas: : 275 páginas Editor: Simon & Schuster; Edición: Reprint (1 de octubre de 2002)ISBN-10: 0743449207 ISBN13: 978-0743449205 Peso: 8 oz.
Número de paginas: : 244 páginas Editor: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard; Edición: 1st (13 de marzo de 1991)ISBN-10: 9780679733973 ISBN13: 978-0679733973 Peso: 11.2 oz.
Número de paginas: : 336 páginas Editor: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Edición: Reprint (3 de agosto de 2010)ISBN-10: 0812979362 ISBN13: 978-0812979367 Peso: 9.1 oz.
Número de paginas: : 480 páginas Editor: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Edición: Reprint (7 de enero de 2014)ISBN-10: 0451466276 ISBN13: 978-0451466273 Peso: 13.6 oz.
Opiniones editoriales:Opinión:Praise for the Dresden Files“Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer starring Philip Marlowe.”— Entertainment Weekly“Fans of Laurell K. Hamilton and Tanya Huff will love this series.”— Midwest Book Review “Superlative.”— Publishers Weekly (starred review) “One of the most enjoyable marriages of the fantasy and mystery genres on the shelves.”— Cinescape “Butcher...spins an excellent noirish detective yarn in a well-crafted, supernaturally-charged setting. The supporting cast is again fantastic, and Harry’s wit continues to fly in the face of a peril-fraught plot.”— Booklist (starred review) “What’s not to like about this series?...It takes the best elements of urban fantasy, mixes it with some good old-fashioned noir mystery, tosses in a dash of romance and a lot of high-octane action, shakes, stirs, and serves.”— SF Site “A tricky plot complete with against-the-clock pacing, firefights, explosions, and plenty of magic. Longtime series fans as well as newcomers drawn by the SciFi Channel’s TV series based on the novels should find this supernatural mystery a real winner.”— Library Journal “What would you get if you crossed Spenser with Merlin? Probably you would come up with someone very like Harry Dresden, wizard, tough guy and star of [the Dresden Files].”— The Washington TimesSobre el autor:A martial arts enthusiast whose résumé includes a long list of skills rendered obsolete at least two hundred years ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher turned to writing as a career because anything else probably would have driven him insane. He lives mostly inside his own head so that he can write down the conversation of his imaginary friends, but his head can generally be found in Independence, Missouri. Jim is the author of the Dresden Files, the Codex Alera novels, and the Cinder Spires series, which began with The Aeronaut’s Windlass.
Número de paginas: : 309 páginas Editor: Vintage; Edición: Reissue (9 de octubre de 2007)ISBN-10: 9780307387134 ISBN13: 978-0307387134 Peso: 8.8 oz.
Número de paginas: : 464 páginas Editor: Penguin Books; Edición: Reprint (27 de mayo de 2008)ISBN-10: 0143113496 ISBN13: 978-0143113492 Peso: 14.9 oz.
com Opinión:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks.Opinión:"A masterpiece . . . a spellbinding work." — Life"A remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written 'true account.' " — The New York Times "The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence . . . harrowing." — The New York Review of BooksFrom the Inside FlapWith the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.Sobre el autor:Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Among his celebrated works are Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory, and In Cold Blood, widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died August 25, 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.
Editor: Soho Crime; Edición: Reprint (11 de junio de 2013)ISBN-10: 1616952121 ISBN13: 978-1616952129 Peso: 1.2 lb.
Opiniones editoriales:Opinión:"Gerritsen fans know by now what to expect from her: a fascinating story with a gripping plot and believably human characters. Such is The Surgeon, and, in places, then some. Let new readers learn what the fans delight in.-Booklist"Gliding as smoothly as a scalpel in a confident surgeon's hand, this tale proves that Gerritsen...has morphed into a...suspense novelist whose growing popularity is keeping pace with her ever-finer writing skills."-Publisher's WeeklyFrom the Hardcover edition.From the Inside FlapIn her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon."The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon. Cordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case. But even Moore cannot protect Cordell from a brilliant hunter who somehow understands--and savors--the secret fears of every woman he kills.Filled with the authentic detail that is the trademark of this doctor turned author . . . and peopled with rich and complex characters--from the ER to the squad room to the city morgue--here is a thriller of unprecedented depth and suspense. Exposing the shocking link between those who kill and cure, punish and protect, The Surgeon is Tess Gerritsen's most exciting accomplishment yet.From the Hardcover edition.Sobre el autor:New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen earned international acclaim for her first novel of suspense, Harvest. She introduced detective Jane Rizzoli in The Surgeon (2001) and Dr. Maura Isles in The Apprentice (2002) and has gone on to write numerous other titles in the celebrated Rizzoli & Isles series, including The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, and Die Again. Her latest novel is the standalone thriller Playing with Fire. A physician, Tess Gerritsen lives in Maine.
Una oscura historia se agita en Chapel Croft. A una larga lista de desapariciones y muertes se une la del sacerdote de la parroquia local, que se ahorcó en su propia iglesia hace solo unas semanas. Para sustituirlo, llega al pueblo Jack Brooks. Trae consigo una hija de catorce años y una conciencia atormentada, aunque confía en empezar aquí una nueva vida. Pero lo que encuentra es un lugar lleno de conspiraciones y secretos donde le espera un extraño regalo de bienvenida: un kit de exorcismo y un siniestro mensaje.
Mientras conduce hacia casa una noche, Gabe ve aparecer la cara de una niña en la ventanilla posterior del viejo coche oxidado que tiene delante. Solo pronuncia una palabra: «Papá».Es su hija de cinco años, Izzy.Nunca la vuelve a ver.Tres años después, Gabe pasa sus días y sus noches recorriendo la autopista en busca del automóvil que se llevó a su hija, negándose a perder la esperanza aunque la mayoría de la gente crea que Izzy está muerta.
Un trasplante de urgenciaUn donante lleno de secretos¿Qué esconden los latidos de tu corazón?Nueva York, 2017. Cora Merlo, médico residente de primer año, sufre un infarto fulminante que la obliga a un trasplante de corazón. Aún convaleciente la joven recibe la visita de una extraña mujer con una enigmática oferta: pasar unos días en Steelville, un pequeño pueblo de interior, para conocer la vida de su hijo Charles, el donante de su corazón.